I was 18.
And it was my first trip to Europe by myself.
My plan was to meet a high school friend in Paris, at the entrance to the George V metro station at exactly noon.
Of course, he was late and I had a mild heartattack as my mind started to imagine what I would do alone for a month.
But my friend showed up eventually.
And we travelled through France, Spain, Holland and Denmark without Airbnb, without Bolt, without weather updates and without Google maps.
If we wanted information, we got it the old fashioned way: we asked.
The Sunny Side of Life Without A Phone
Since losing my phone in London, if I need information, I have to talk to strangers
“How do I get to ___?”
“Which terminal is for international flights?”
“Do you have the time?”
But I like it.
It’s a good excuse to practice my English:)
What about you?
Could you survive without your phone? Have you ever gone without a phone? What did you do?
Tell your story below.
Yes i can survive without my smartphone, and i was travell arround the Europe three or four times when i was younger. I was studing my English in school in Belgrade and in England and Malta. But U.K. and Malta were summer school so i learnd more with girls then siriusly. In the USA I have never been, i have had vissa twice but i stayed at Europe and my home town. Now i want to inproove my English cause i an not young any more. I am 47 and i know just to speak as same as i know 30 years ago. I wanna listen the Stones with no lirics and watching movies without translate. That’s it.
I’m from a generation that lived without cell phones and I loved that life. People met more often to talk. I don’t deny that cell phones are convenient sometimes. But as with everything, moderation is recommended. Moreover, a mobile phone with our data is an identification collar wherever we are.
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Its difficult without a phone becourse my job is my phone. But sometimes I wich I had a job in a garden with thousands of flowers and pots. How lovely 🌸🌸🌸🌸
It looks like the phone is rather important for people…!
Certainly you could survive without your phone ,but you need a little more time to find out all the informations that the phone can offer to you.The most recently celular phone models are a sort of little PC with many apps.
II pay attention do not lose my phone because it’s personalised. But, however ,it’s not so complicated, if you loose your phone you can buy another phone.Simple!
Yes, I can survive without my phone, but few days I think feel very strange. When I was a teenager I don’t have a phone and everything is very simple and easy, but today most people including me have dependent from phone.
My phone steel my time.. instead talking with pepole we are watching our phones, wasting time! When IWas young we play outside in garden forest. Adn we didint miss the phone because they exist yust in office and public phones inthe city.it was simple and lovely time! We were happy anyway!
Once upon a time there was a fix phone and library. It was very nice time, tranquil and full of discovery. Two iconics founder made for us plenty fascinating devices. Amazing possibilities. I used fix phone, frequented the library. Now I use smartphone and others technologies. I´m grateful for small mercies. I find the best friend is book. Enjoy! 🙂
I lived most of my life without a phone, and that was fine then. Nowadays, life is different and the telephone is simply necessary.
My adventure without a mobile phone was terrible, because I’ m jurnalist, and work as editor in chief in the most big newspaper of Greece. One night I was in restaurant with my friend and in Piraus α bomb exploded in the hands of a terrorist. Nobody knows where I ‘m. I was lucky, because my wife thought where I might be and she called there and told me what happend. From this moment I can’t go everywhere without my phone….
Hello, yes I could survive without my cell phone. And several times I was practice to do for my holiday with no phone at all. And as you told before, I have real good time to practice english and have my all attention in person what I had met.
My phone is on silent often and has notifications turned off. Sometimes I left it at work and then I missed it very much because I don’t have an alarm clock.
Yes I can survive without phone. I don’t use it for calls just for internet. Phone calls bother me. I don’t like endless calls. Time is money.
I could survive without a phone. Actualy, i don’t like mobile phone, and i use it more i woulde like.
Well, in my distant childhood (when life was nice and beautiful and grass was greener and sky was bluer), my home even didn´t have electricity, let alone phone or so…
My honest answer now is: I could give up a lot, but please leave me a phone. Losing it would create a complete mess. I hope I didn´t to jinx something…
Now, with my new occupations with English learning activities I coudn’t live without my mobile phone because of my favorite application: Google translator, which I am using constantly.
I write this now my iphone. Less than half of my live I have been own any mobile phone. To me it is much more easy to go to the information desk and question advise from the some people than try to find some undergroun line ex. when i am some big city
I wasn’t born with a cell phone in my hand. I grew up without a cell phone. And I was happy. Now, I’m happy too. I have a smart, fast and multifunctional phone. Thanks to it, I can tell my loved ones 100 times a day that I love them by sending them a blinking and singing heart-shaped emoticon with the inscription „You make my heart so happy“😀
Could I survive without my phone? Definitely yes, because I am not an addictive person.
I think that if all the phones on the earth disappeared, creative and adaptive people would discover, reinvent, develop, invent etc. other interesting ways of communication. And maybe we will be even happier.
But now I am thankful for my smart phone ( which I am currently writing in English) that it’s here, helps me and that I can use it properly.
It would be nice to manage without a smartphone. And then you find out in an unfamiliar place that even locals do not know names of streets 100 meters from their homes – they all use smartphones.
If I’d lose my smartphone I think I would certainly survive, although I think I would be a bit anxious for a month or two: I’m not used to ask people about things any more. Anyway, I hope not to lose my phone for any reason, it’s such a useful invention…!
Hi dear Mr Vig
I’m happy to read your text and always learn new words which are very useful.
I livead both the eara without and withe smartphone.
Smartphone takes lot of time but I can’t imagine life whithout that tool which allaws us to exangewith people even they are very far.
Smartphone represents an office, a library, a phonebook, aphoto album, a dictionary, etc.
I’m so, many times prefer speak and learn to the people
Only i know that, I wouldn’t be able to travel across an unknown city or country without my phone. I always have stress when I see 30 percent of the battery.